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John Andariese Receives Prestigious Award at Hoop Hall </div>
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<p>On Friday night in Springfield, Massachusetts, Fordham University alum John Andariese received the Curt Gowdy Media Award for Electronic Media. Andariese was a member of the Fordham Rams basketball team from 1956-1960, and played in two NIT&rsquo;s.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>His broadcasting career began when he did color commentary alongside Marv Albert for Knicks radio broadcasts in 1972, and was on the radio until 1986. He then worked on television for MSG also alongside Marv Albert from 1986-1997, before returning to radio as a color commentator until 2012. He was also the host of a show on NBA TV called &ldquo;NBA Legends with Johnny Hoops&rdquo;.</p>
<p>When he was announced as the award winner, Marv Albert (1997 Gowdy Winner) and Adam Silver both spoke about Andariese. They shared stories about Johnny Hoops, which were not only about who he was on-air but the type of person he was off the air. There was also an entertaining video tribute of Andariese which highlighted some of his famous calls and also some behind the scenes outtakes.</p>
<p>After asking Marv Albert about what it meant for him to see Johnny Hoops receive the award that he once received he said &ldquo;I was so delighted, he&rsquo;s deserved it for many years. Not only was he a terrific broadcaster but he was a great guy to work with.&rdquo; Mike Breen called it &ldquo;one of the nicest nights I&rsquo;ve ever been a part of because {Andariese} is a guy who&rsquo;s given his life to the game of basketball.&rdquo; Breen also noted with a smile &ldquo;And he&rsquo;s a Fordham guy.&rdquo;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">When speaking to Albert, Adam Silver and Breen after the ceremony I noticed that they all agreed that Andariese was able to put the game in terms that every fan could understand. &nbsp;&ldquo;He translated the ga</span><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/sports/photos/articles/BBHOF%20insert.jpg" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; width: 320px; height: 240px; float: left;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">me into lay-person&rsquo;s terms&rdquo; Silver said. &ldquo;He made the game understandable&rdquo;. Breen added, &ldquo;He had</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;a wonderful way of e</span>xplaining the game in simple terms. He was an expert with his knowledge, but he explained things in a way that everyone could understand.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Albert had a similar compliment for Andariese when he said &ldquo;not only was he knowledgeable with such a love for the game, but the way he could break it down so the fans could understand the fundamentals, and he also had a great sense of humor which is important in broadcasting.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Perhaps the highest compliment that Johnny Hoops receieved was from former Commissioner and 2014 Hall of Fame Inductee David Stern, who said that Andariese was &ldquo;the most reliable curator of New York basketball history and tradition.&rdquo; Stern then added that Johnny Hoops was also &ldquo;the most honest reporter with respect to how the Knicks were doing.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The President of the Basketball Hall of Fame John Doleva said &ldquo;When you give out these type of awards you want to pick the right people, and there was so much support for John. He&rsquo;s a wonderful guy who&rsquo;s contributed so much to the growth of the game.&rdquo;</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s no doubt that Johnny Hoops has made a profound impact on people and on the game of basketball. He was not only a tremendous color commentator but a well-respected individual who brought out the best in people and will leave lasting impressions on everyone he has met.</p>
<p>Audio from interviews with Marv Albert, Mike Breen, David Stern, Adam Silver and John Doleva are below.&nbsp;</p>
<p>You can also listen to the full Fordham Focus segment with all of these clips from this weekend&#39;s One on One below.&nbsp;</p>
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Professional SportsOne on OneBaseballNBAAdam SilverDavid SternHoops HallJohn AndarieseMarv AlbertMike BreenNBASat, 09 Aug 2014 18:54:00 +0000James Decker63787 at http://www.wfuv.orgTribeca/ ESPN Film Festival Reviewshttp://www.wfuv.org/sports/one-one/140424/tribeca-espn-film-festival-reviews
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Surveying This Year's Sports Documentaries </div>
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<p><strong>When The Garden Was Eden</strong></p>
<p>Phil Jackson skipped the red carpet and discreetly went to his seat before last week&rsquo;s Tribeca/ESPN premiere of <em>When The Garden Was Eden</em>, Harvey Araton&rsquo;s book turned documentary from director Michael Rappaport.</p>
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<p>He provided a buzz throughout the auditorium during the screening and then warranted hopeful applause from a largely New York Knick faithful when the final credits mentioned his new job as President of the sputtering franchise. He has come full circle from his curly brown-haired short-short days as a bench player in New York. For a movie generating hype about the past glory years, Jackson&rsquo;s presence fueled fervor for the future.</p>
<p>The documentary begins subjectively. Rappaport, also a diverse actor, is a lifelong Knicks fan and introduces us to the current climate of Knicks basketball: a disappointing mess. He then quickly begins an oral history of fifty years before, when the Knicks could still have been categorized as such, when players made $20,000 and when the NBA was just a recreational sport. The personal inflection Rappaport provides though soon subsides into a colorful and informational account, like last year&rsquo;s ESPN gala premiere, <em>Big Shot,</em> Kevin Connelly&rsquo;s similar directorial journey through his childhood rooting for the New York Islanders.</p>
<p>Unlike Connelly, somewhat confusing his journalistic objectivity with his own narration, Rappaport lets his dynamic cast of ex-basketball stars provide the films playful reminiscence. He converses with the 1969-1970 championship team, built of a resilient Willis Reed, sharp-shooter Dick Barnett, flashy Walt Frazier, North Dakotan Phil Jackson, and Rhodes scholar Bill Bradley, under the team-oriented coaching of Red Holzman. Earl &ldquo;The Pearl&rdquo; Monroe and Jerry Lucas (the memory whiz) add commentary to the Knicks&rsquo; eccentrically patch-worked team, reflecting on their arrival to 1973&rsquo;s more reserved championship run.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>These early Knicks teams revitalized the NBA in New York, a league and city&nbsp;trying to reestablish itself as a basketball town after&nbsp;the college fixing scandals years earlier. Rappaport weaves archival game footage between interviews, which also include current NBA analyst and former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, and NBA broadcasters Mike Breen and Marv Albert. They often set up funny memories and jokes whose punch lines get comical treatment from the group of retired players. &ldquo;Red told me to hit the open man but as the game went on I was the open man,&rdquo; says Frazier about playing in the 1970 Finals. It&rsquo;s a laugh out loud moment partly because Frazier isn&rsquo;t necessarily joking.</p>
<p>Fundamental stories must be told in a documentary such as this. Like when Willis Reed hobbled back onto the court in Game 7 of the Finals at Madison Square Garden facing Wilt Chamberlain&rsquo;s Lakers. The crowd erupted. Counter opinions from Jerry West defending his Los Angeles teams provide a comically deeper bicoastal perspective. But Rappaport realizes he has an idiosyncratic bunch jogging their memories. Relaying statistics and highlights is only half the fun and importance in remembering this era.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s because these successful years came in the tectonic cultural shift of the early 1970s. That was when Walt Frazier turned into &ldquo;Clyde&rdquo; and made New York City a constant observer to his dramatic fashion sense. That was when some Knicks players were given shotguns by the National Guard and were told to point at their own citizens. That was when the New York media began to shift from their coverage of baseball (those 1969 Mets in particular) and begin to take basketball seriously. Appropriately, Rappaport injects soul music into the soundtrack at this point beneath the team&rsquo;s own noisy hairstyles and jewelry.</p>
<p><em>When The Garden Was Eden </em>continues a healthy string of ESPN documentaries over the last several years and Rappaport, a gritty New York accented actor, embodies his subject material. I would imagine it helped his childhood idols open up more, too. Years removed, these aging stars are still the torchbearers for a championship in New York. They&rsquo;re looking to pass it on. Phil Jackson, now much older and grayer, seems at once the nostalgic, progressive, logical choice to take it.</p>
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<p><strong>Slaying the Badger</strong></p>
<p><em>Slaying The Badger, </em>directed and written by John Dower, is about the friendly rivalry and rivalrous friendship between U.S. cyclist Greg Lemond and French cyclist Bernard Hinault. But much more subtly, it&rsquo;s about the impact of Lance Armstrong&rsquo;s meteoric fall from grace. To be clear, Armstrong is not this film&rsquo;s subject, but his doping ghost (and that of Floyd Landis) lingers in-between the cracks because Greg Lemond is now, technically, the only American to have won a Tour de France yellow jacket. Maybe without the recent record book punishment, this story, though intriguing, doesn&rsquo;t find relevancy. But as Dower, and most documentarians know, timing can be everything.</p>
<p>So it goes without saying that most people, even sports enthusiasts, probably don&rsquo;t know Greg Lemond&rsquo;s journey to attainting three Tour de France titles. Dower wouldn&rsquo;t blame you. He retells this relatively unknown story, adapted from the eponymous novel by Richard Moore, without condescension. Dower interviews Lemond in his middle age on a couch with his wife next to him, corroborating their memories as young kids. Back in the early 1980s he was the rising star of a barren U.S. cycling landscape but needed to train abroad to continue his progression.</p>
<p>The young, newly married couple moved to France after Lemond was invited to join Bernard Hinault&rsquo;s cycling team, and by 1985 Lemond was a frontrunner to win the Tour. Hinault, the cycling world&rsquo;s accepted spokesperson and captain, already had the legacy- nicknamed the badger for his tenacious killer instinct- and would later get famous French actor Bernard Tapie to own his team. Together they lured Lemond in with sponsorships even as he blatantly rejected France&rsquo;s and cycling&rsquo;s cultural norms.</p>
<p>The drama to this story however comes in retelling the finishes to consecutive Tour de Frances. Dower listens to Lemond and Hinault tell opposite sides and interpretations about the end of the 1985 race, when Lemond, with the ability to win, was told by his coach to sacrifice his standing to let Hinault ride ahead to victory. He reluctantly followed orders and later the victorious Hinault publicly stated he would do the same for Lemond next year. Cut to 1986 and Hinault, explained in cycling jargon, disregards fulfilling his end of the bargain.</p>
<p>Dower enhances the tension with video from the races. But he also cuts between his disparate interviewees as though they are speaking to each other across a table. It&rsquo;s an effective technical choice. It&rsquo;s as though Dower has reunited these teammates and coaches for an uncomfortable intervention. Their geographic isolation only underscores the growing distance that emerged between Lemond and Hinault, or as Lemond&rsquo;s teammate Andrew Hempstead would call it, a relationship of fratricide.</p>
<p>Lemond would eventually capture three Tour victories, two after getting mistakenly shot in the chest on a hunting trip by a family member. He helped put cycling on the map for the United States, and consequently gave Lance Armstrong a platform to ride into the U.S., then world, record books. Now, over twenty years later, Lemond, like those New York Knicks of old, is ironically still waiting for someone to take his place. Fairly that is.&nbsp;</p>
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A Voice That Inspired </div>
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<p>In the latest HBO documentary, Glickman, about revered sportscaster Marty Glickman premiering tonight at 9pm, director James Freedman seems intent on paying homage to his subject&rsquo;s humanity just as much as his legendary resume of work. The first athlete turned play-by-play commentator, Glickman, who passed away in 2001, became a pioneer for sportscasters, calling everything from basketball and football at the professional level to the trotters at Yonkers raceway and inspiring listeners and future broadcasters, notably many who came through the halls at WFUV. But he was much more: a proud member and beacon of the Jewish community and a firm believer in sports&rsquo; ability to connect and transcend intolerance at any level.</p>
<p>Born in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants and later raised in Brooklyn, Glickman --dubbed the &ldquo;Flatbush Flash,&rdquo;-- inherited an incredible pair of legs, letting him outrun his neighborhood challengers and eventually Olympic-bred athletes. He was a track and football standout at James Madison High School and headed to Syracuse University, honing his skills to eventually become eligible for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But what a strong portion of the documentary focuses on is the fact that, as a Jewish member of the 400 meter relay for team USA, he never actually competed. Glickman, through archival footage, remembered seeing Adolf Hitler in the stands, remembered being addressed by coaches that Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalf would replace him and the other Jewish sprinter Sam Stoller. He remembered and experienced anti-Semitism for much of his whole life.</p>
<p>Despite religious prejudice, Glickman continued to run and play football after graduating from Syracuse, eventually landing a spot with the minor league Jersey City Giants. He may have been a superhero figure to the Jewish kids in Brooklyn, but physically he was only 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; and 160 pounds as a running back. He&rsquo;d play on the weekends, work day jobs to earn money, and then would stay late nights at WHN/MGM, eventually becoming the voice of &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s Baseball,&rdquo; in which he would gloriously re-enact the calls from the games earlier in the day. He had such a radio presence that fans started closing their eyes and ears to the afternoon scores to wait for Glickman to spout them out that night.</p>
<p>At WHN he soon became the voice of the New York Knicks and would serve 21 years there. Basketball wasn&rsquo;t a sport broadcasters were eager to call. It hadn&rsquo;t ever effectively been done. The ball moved too fast and so did the players. No one had invented a vernacular for the game until Glickman began painting the listener&rsquo;s canvas. Freedman interviews an array of broadcasters and entertainers from Larry King to Jerry Stiller and they all revel in his ability to create vocabulary for markings and positions on the court. As NBA announcer and Fordham University graduate Mike Breen describes, &ldquo;his voice was attached to the ball.&rdquo;</p>
<p>When King went to his first Knick game, he already knew what the court looked like thanks to Glickman. Marty even originated the phrase now omnipresent in the game, symbolic of a perfect shot.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Swish.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The film is chronological, but Freedman is wary of when to converge past and present. An effective aside pits a Glickman NBA sound bite against those of his prot&eacute;g&eacute;s Marv Albert and Mike Breen. &ldquo;Top of the key, down the lane, into the corner, dribble in the right hand, passes near baseline, FOUL!&rdquo; It rattles off each of them in similar succinct and articulate fashion. If anything, Marty&rsquo;s legacy can at once be defined by his archived voice and through the broadcasters that he mentored, continuing to refine and individuate his guiding tenor and rhythm.</p>
<p>He later migrated to WNEW to broadcast New York Giants football games with Al DeRogatis and then jumped ship to WOR to be the Jets radio play by play. His time in football&rsquo;s spotlight earned him considerable acclaim, becoming the reason to tune into games Sunday. In the best, most effective sequence of the film, Freedman allows us to listen like fans in the 1960s and 70s did, playing Glickman&rsquo;s voice over shots of flocks of people, huddled around transistor radios in New York City. So jaded in a time of highlights and high definition, for those that remember him, Glickman created color TV for thousands who switched on the dial.</p>
<p>Glickman would later assist HBO with hours of sports programming and features. But something rarely brought up in the film, but one that will surely cross your mind, is just how much Glickman worked. He had a large family, but <em>Glickman</em> emphasizes his public life more than his private. He never stopped. If he wasn&rsquo;t calling a professional game, he was calling one at a local high school. Nothing was beneath him, not even a game of marbles (seriously).</p>
<p>After speaking his last words into the microphone on December 26, 1992, he continued to mentor students at WFUV. His life was describing, analyzing, and connecting. It was also giving. In one scene, he recalls returning to Berlin&rsquo;s Olympic Stadium for the first time since he had marched the opening ceremony and was eventually told he&rsquo;d never compete there. There he let out a roar of anger, and was later surprised it had been pent up for so long.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m sure, with his outstanding ability, even that cathartic scream could have painted a replica of that fateful day in 1936.</p>
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